A sequence of hapless characters contract Motaba along the way, dying horrible deaths and infecting their loved ones.
But in "Happy Moscow" the paralyzed present shows no signs of departing, and catastrophe lingers, flinging brickbats at Platonov's hapless characters.
Daniel will remind some readers of those hapless characters in Iris Murdoch's novels who fall in love — blissfully and brainlessly — with strikingly emblematic individuals whom they scarcely know.
Their unique comedies and dramas are characterized by their rich symbolism and hapless characters who are rife with idiosyncrasies that add to their depths.
The scene is drenchingly saccharine, but you can't help hoping it's for real — that these hapless characters will somehow manage to hold further tragedies at bay.
Mr. Meloy has lovingly created his own alternate universe, and he draws his hapless characters with enormous wit and tenderness, even the chimbley sweeps.
This is satire at its most superficial, filled with meanness unredeemed by compassion, notable for its lack of heart and its catty superiority toward hapless characters jerked around and mocked like contestants on a Japanese game show.
(And, oh, Thespis, does Strabo lie!) Using nearly every cheap trick in the book — coincidences abound — Mamet has his three hapless characters end up broke and stranded several times in the course of the play, while babbling on about sex.
Both men had a deep affection for the comedy of foolishness and a bone-deep affinity for their hapless characters that drove them to depict silly behavior without ridiculing those caught in it.
It will also star Tony Hale, known for his hapless characters in Arrested Development and Veep, and Natasha Lyonne, currently enjoying a career renaissance for her role in Netflix series Orange is the New Black.
With its international cast of sweet, hapless characters, the collection "is as rich, complex and delicious as the islands themselves, boiling with humanity," Bob Shacochis said here earlier this year.
